622
Nonconformists, 96
Norman Invasion, 26
North, Lord, 32, 38, 114
North Carolina
abolition of voting rights for free
blacks, 136
state constitution, 146, 148, 377
Northwest Ordinance (1787), 414–15,
454–60
Notes of the Debates in the Federal
Convention (Madison), 293, 385,
469
Notes on Virginia (Jefferson), 149
Nullification doctrine, 493, 499
Oceana (Harrington), 18
Oligarchy, 336
One person, one vote concept, 100,
102
One state, one vote concept, 264
On Liberty (Mill), 317–18
Oratory, 15
Order, defined, 4–5
Organized crime, 582
Otis, James, 33–34, 113, 125, 140,
348–49
Overlapping functions, 335–36
Paine, Thomas, 353
Common Sense, 44, 121–22, 145
The Rights of Man, 59
support for French Revolution, 59
Paper-money struggles, 161
‘‘Parchment barrier,’’ 4
Parliament, English, 23–24
growth of, 26–28
repeal of Stamp Act, 113
struggle against Colonists, 28
Parliamentary democracy, xviii
Parliamentary supremacy, 28–32,
33–34, 44, 353
Parliamentary system, 24
Index
Parson’s Cause, 106
Paterson, William, 249, 259, 262, 480
Patriarcha (Filmer), 45
Peace of Paris, 243
Peloponnesian War, 16
Pendleton, Edmund, 117
Pendleton Act, 553
Pennsylvania, state constitution, 146,
147–48, 151, 376
Pennsylvania State House. See
Independence Hall
Petition, right of, 417–18
Petition of Right of 1628, 23, 39, 41,
75–79, 150, 402
Philadelphia Convention of 1787. See
Constitutional (Philadelphia)
Convention of 1787
Pilgrims, 89, 96
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 251
call for constitutional convention,
162
fear of anti-slavery measures, 271
participation in writing of State
constitution, 142
plan for new form of government,
256
Plantation covenant, 97
Plato, 16–17
Plebiscitary democracy, 315, 317
Plessy v. Ferguson, 574
Plutarch: Lives of the Most Noble
Grecians and Romans, 17
Political activism, 599
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